CONTAMINATED

"Do you know hard it was to drag this fuck outside?'

"No"

"....."

"Will you please let him go?"

"No, this idiot right here is my bargaining chip"

"Okay"

Lesley sat down as her henchman prepares a drink for her, they just sat there with that deafening silence, they just stared and stared.

"Do you know what is happening out there Mr. Cramer?"

"....."

"All of the towns are being ran down through the muck, no one will probably survive"

"Okay"

"Unbothered?"

"Don't worry, we're taking all of you down with us"

"How is that?"

"You're little pharmaceutical in Toronto, is probably getting surrounded"

"Really, that place is heavily defended, no one can get through it"

"Uh huh, lets hope, the GOD is in my side"

"Why do you think so?"

"Because I THINK so"

"Sorry?"

"There is no 'god' anymore, if there is, its a human.. those who control that vaccine that can immunize us to the virus and destroy the dead, those who comes on top and become 'leaders' will be revered as one.. I can be god if I want to"

"What are you talking about?"

Tobias started to talk nonsense, he seems to have develop a god complex for some time now, and on this room they start to see it. They all felt uncomfortable as he starts to lecture them about the roles of 'leaders' in this new world, to protect, a chief, those who are willing to die for their people and those who can make the biggest decision. Lesley sat there and just listened as he blabbered on. As Tobias talks about 'hope' due to the abundance of children in their communities, he contradicts himself by how easily they lose it, he starts to turn mad and everyone can see it.

"Wow... you lost it?"

"Yeah, I should have died, but here I am... like this asshole"

He cocked his gun and killed Schmidt just like that, he shot him until he runs out of bullets, and just like earlier no one even bothered to stop him, and Schmidt's council just sat there, shocked, but not afraid. Lesley is there to take them in as one of them.

"He's dead, well.... Good, I guess we'll be heading to Toronto and get our vaccine, bye now"

"Do you think that will work?"

"Yes, we have geniuses among us and they can make a vaccine"

"Alaska, to Toronto, that is from the west coast to sort of the west coast... are there no more other pharmaceutical building that can create the vaccine?"

"No, there are some.. we have to assure that we can create a vaccine quickly and-"

"Sure, obviously there was nothing else, and this fuck right here told you about it.."

Lesley seems to be on edge as to how Tobias easily caught on her lie, they ran across America in order to find a pharmaceutical building and to take control of it and create a vaccine for themselves, controlling the GWN is part of it as it is much closer to them and if they wanted to they can take control of it, but Schmidt was too cocky.

"Leave us, all of you, and drag this stinking corpse out of here"

"....."

"You look tired Tobias, are you sick?"

"Yes"

"Lock the door"

"Crazy..."

Tobias spits on the floor as Lesley pulls the curtains and he sees something unlikely. Samantha cries in Elizabeth's arms and so did Lee, they got back to their house and starts to pack things.

"Where are we going?"

"We need to get out of here, now!"

"Why?"

"We can't trust anyone, we need to head south down to Mexico, or Anchorage"

"Why?"

"We need to get out of the country, if possible the whole state"

"What makes you think running away is our best option, the world is like this, we are no different from them"

"Maybe we are, maybe there is a place out there where we are safe, we can be safe I mean"

"Niall"

"....."

"NIALL!"

"WHAT!"

"Let me help you"

Back at the hall Lesley and Tobias have a little meeting of their own in the dark little room. Lesley lit one candle and it is the only light source they have, Tobias seems to have grown weaker.

"How long have you been reunited with some of these people?"

"I don't know anymore, I lost track of time, and I'm contaminated"

"Contaminated?"

"Infected I mean"

He showed his neck to Lesley and a bite that he got from Louanne, it has spread throughout his whole body and Natalia's blood and plasma in him is only slowing it down, not even destroying it like he expected. He thought it was just normal as he also got sick before when he survived the bite, but this time he doubts it. The virus did get stronger and now he is seeing it for himself.

"I know you mean well"

"Do I?"

"We have a ship.. sort off, head to Akiminski Island and go East, there's a ship there... its one of those sealifts we have"

"What were you planning to use of it?"

"Head to Iceland"

"Why?"

"its the only safe place in the world, untouched by all of this hell"

"How sure are you?"

"Because the sealift came from them, they landed on Akiminski Island and we were there, they were the ones supplying us"

"What was your plan?"

"Go to Iceland and live there until this hell dies out, that was my plan with my brother.. but we met so many people along the way that we forgot about it.. and you?"

"Same as you people, hold out in Anchorage with only the fittest, those who are old are sent to a different place where they'll be living the rest of their life"

"Will they die?"

"A peaceful death"

"Me too, for me Iceland... is the place to die in... what else?"

"Create a vaccine, so that their deaths will be peaceful as well"

"Why the horde, on Marathon and Mackinaw?"

"Because... a cure IS impossible, we both lost too much for this cure and we can only imagine"

"So when Schmidt said a cure is possible, you guys were happy?"

"Yes, but he was doing it to save his own skin"

Realizing that both of them wants to achieve peace in their own path lead them tor realize that death is the best outcome in this world, the only thing that will ensure those sleep-filled nights, that tranquil place, death it the only way you can achieve those. They were hopeful but at what cost, the world is dying or it is already dead, and they are trying to live on borrowed time.

"We have a place, in south Dakota that you guys attacked"

"Sorry about that, we were that desperate to go after that cure, vaccine rather"

"Well, perhaps we can shake to it?"

The 2 laughed and realized how anticlimactic all this fighting is, they could have been great friends if this world hasn't gone down to hell. The 2 shook hands as Tobias is slowly succumbs to the virus, Zachary came crashing in as he knocked down the door with Kyle, and on the ground the ground they see Lesley putting a curtain over Tobias' body.

"What's your name?"

"Zachary..."

"Zachary?"

"Cramer, I'm his.. son"

"And you?"

"A friend"

Lesley told Zachary about the ship, Tobias kept it hidden from him as he still has an agenda to save his sister, and he might feel like he will abandon her. Zachary walks up to Tobias' body and cries over it, thanking him. His death came swiftly. Zach and Eugene comes out carrying his body on a stretcher and Lesley's men helps them with it as she commanded them, their 'war' ended just like that. Samantha sees Zachary an starts to run towards his brother.